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‘I’m not sure if I’m proud’: Meet Phil Elwood, one-time spin doctor for the world’s worst

Promoting positive stories about dictators and despots takes a special kind of immorality. Can you buy your soul back afterwards?

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The Lockerbie disaster ... 259 people died when a Pan Am jumbo jet was blown up in 1988.

US charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion

The US Justice Department has announced new charges against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

  • Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo
Libyan General Khalifa Hifter, pictured in January.

UN expresses horror at mass graves in Libya

The graves were uncovered after fighters loyal to Khalifa Hifter, whose 14-month campaign to capture Tripoli, Libya, collapsed in recent weeks, retreated from Tarhuna, Libya, 64 kilometres south-east of the capital.

  • Declan Walsh
Prince Andrew at Ascot last year.

After a fast and scandalous fall, can the Queen’s favourite son ever rebuild his reputation?

Prince Andrew may be the favourite, but his 60th birthday this month was far from a celebration after recent scandals.

  • Camilla Tominey
A fighter of the UN recognised Libyan government of national accord exits a building in Salah al-Din frontline in Tripoli last week.

'We have ways to escalate': Rival factions threaten long war over oil

Libya's recognised government and Khalifa Haftar's National Army are wrangling over the capital, Tripoli, and wealth.

  • Ulf Laessing and Aidan Lewis
The Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania.

My brush with Romania's notorious Ceausescus

Michael Kroger recalls meeting Nicolae Ceaușescu's son at a South Melbourne barbecue in 1977, as he visits Romania on the 30th anniversary of the despotic leader's execution.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a mining and minerals convention in Toronto this week.

Trudeau and ex-aide try to return to 'sunny ways'. Is it too late?

Gerald Butts' testimony was calm, measured and respectful. Whether it helped erase a taint on the leader of Canada remains to be seen.

  • Ian Austen and Catherine Porter
France's Sarkozy to face trial for corruption and influence peddling

France's Sarkozy to face trial for corruption and influence peddling

The case came about after investigators used phone-taps to examine allegations that late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi funded Sarkozy's campaign.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the second son of Libya's dictator, after his capture in November 2011. He predicted civil war if his father's regime was removed.

'We can touch freedom. There is no going back'

The Libyans I spoke to in May 2011 dismissed fears of civil war, rising Islamism and tribalism. 'We won't fall apart,' one insisted.

  • Maher Mughrabi

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